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Scare campaign pumps fear of Gypsy invasion.
Byline: Tod Robberson
WYRE PIDDLE, England _ Green men with laser guns could hardly pose a more frightening image than the one British tabloids have presented recently of the alien hordes allegedly bearing down on Britain's shores.
"One Day You'll Wake Up and Find a Gipsy With a Gun Up Your Nose," screamed a headline in London's Mail on Sunday newspaper last month. "Gypsies: You Can't Come In," bellowed the Daily Express in a front-page headline. "Gypsy Invasion," read another.
With 10 mostly poor nations poised to gain European Union membership in May, the tabloid campaign, supported by conservative anti-immigration groups, successfully pressured Prime Minister Tony Blair to tighten British border controls and limit the immigration rights afforded to the new EU passport-holders.
Home Secretary David Blunkett announced new rules last month that will deny various government benefits to new immigrants for up to two years from their arrival.
For ethnic Romani Gypsies such as Peter Richards, the effect of the scare campaign has been devastating.
"We've been hassled and victimized so much, I cannot tell you," he said. ...
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